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After UP 5, I've made "apt install mint-meta-debian-mate" as I'm running mate, but this installs also ttf-liberation and fonts-liberation, and I don't like how the web browser looks after that; so I've made sudo aptitude remove --purge ttf-liberation and sudo aptitude remove --purge fonts-liberation (like I've made so many times in ubuntu) but this uninstalls also mint-meta-debian-mate. My question is: I'm missing some thing important without that package? Or, is there any workaround for remove that fonts that I don't like without loosing mint-meta-debian-mate?

Sorry for my english and thanks in advance

Last edited by tmallafre on Sun Dec 23, 2012 3:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

tmallafre wrote:My question is: I'm missing some thing important without that package? Or, is there any workaround for remove that fonts that I don't like without loosing mint-meta-debian-mate?

- first rule don't mix aptitude with apt just because ...(explaining: they use different algorithms and one doesn't know what the other does/did)- aptitude will uninstall the meta-pkg because you are uninstalling a pkg automatically installed as a dep of it (apt won't do that)- in the end of the day you can let that meta-pkg go if you want (the required pkgs are already installed and won't be removed)